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"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
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"A good ad which is not run never produces sales."
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"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
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"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."
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"The future of advertising is the Internet."
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"Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is."
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"I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range."
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"There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone."
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"As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is."
Time
"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
Love
"It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling."
Travel
"It takes a long time to publish a book."
Time
"I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other."
People
"Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur."
Being
"I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them."
People
"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
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"Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception."
Advertising
"It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work."
Work
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